autofs man page too old on my ubuntu LTS 10.04

[Tom H]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 6:33 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 07/21/2010 02:53 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:40 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>> On 07/21/2010 01:04 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have the following autofs man page, which is too old.
>>>>
>>>> I tried to search 'autofs' on http://packages.ubuntu.com/  under
>>>> "Search the contents of packages". But I don't see which package I
>>>> should install to get the latest man page. Could anybody show me what
>>>> is the proper way to search a package? In particular, what package I
>>>> should install to get the latest man page of autofs?
>>>>
>>>
>>> That is the latest man page for autofs:
>>> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/en/man8/autofs.8.html
>>> Try:
>>> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/en/man5/autofs.5.html
>>>
>>> File a bug report if you think they are outdated:
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autofs
>>
>> I'm not sure if they are outdated or not. One was written in 1997 and
>> the other was written in 2000. It just looks strange to me that they
>> have not been updated in the last 10 years. Does it mean autofs user
>> interface hasn't been changed in the last 10 years?
>
> Looks strange to me, but I've seen stranger :-) Here is the upstream source:
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v5/
> Seems to have some recent man page updates. Example:
> autofs-5.0.5-add-autofs_ldap_auth_conf-man-page.patch
>  24-May-2010 03:11  9.7K
> but I don't know whether they apply to Ubuntu or not. I suggest you
> either file a bug, or use 'Answers'
> (https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autofs) to ask the package
> maintainers. I doubt you are going to get any 'authoritative' answers on
> a users list.

The man pages are not outdated. autofs simply has not changed.

Ubuntu simply needs to change"/etc/init.d/autofs
start|stop|restart|reload|status" because of upstart; the maintainer
must have forgotten to do so.